From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>,
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>,
git@vger.kernel.org, davidk@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Re: [PATCH/POLL] git-format-patch: the default suffix is now .patch, not .txt
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:26:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070118152620.GB15428@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0701180641v55987657t331d6a1868dabee0@mail.gmail.com>
Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
> don't think so. I _would_ cry seeing how fork(2) gets ported to Windows,
> and you will, probably... after seeing how it is done in cygwin.
AFAIK there's not a strong reason to keep fork() in Git.
Currently anytime we fork a process its to perform a small amount
of file descriptor redirection and then immediately exec some other
executable, or a hook script. In other words we probably could
convert all current uses of fork to something like in run-command.c,
which a Windows port could then easily replace using CreateProcess().
But removing fork isn't worth doing until someone is seriously
trying to port Git onto Windows without Cygwin. The current code
works on sane OSes and isn't broken, so why fix it?
--
Shawn.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-18 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-17 13:10 [RFC] Add a suffix option to git-format-patch Josh Boyer
2007-01-17 13:49 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-17 14:50 ` Josh Boyer
2007-01-17 16:39 ` Horst H. von Brand
2007-01-17 19:18 ` [PATCH] Introduce 'git-format-patch --suffix=patch' Junio C Hamano
2007-01-17 19:20 ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-01-17 19:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-17 19:51 ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-01-17 19:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-17 20:08 ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-01-17 20:22 ` [PATCH] Make format-patch --suffix="" not add any suffix Brian Gernhardt
2007-01-18 1:11 ` [PATCH] Introduce 'git-format-patch --suffix=patch' Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-17 15:43 ` [RFC] Add a suffix option to git-format-patch David Kågedal
2007-01-17 16:57 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-01-17 17:05 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-17 17:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-17 18:15 ` David Kågedal
2007-01-17 20:18 ` Josh Boyer
2007-01-17 20:20 ` Josh Boyer
[not found] ` <7vsle9p8pg.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
2007-01-18 0:06 ` [PATCH/POLL] git-format-patch: the default suffix is now .patch, not .txt Junio C Hamano
2007-01-18 1:06 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-18 7:59 ` Alex Riesen
2007-01-18 8:06 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-18 8:18 ` Alex Riesen
2007-01-18 9:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-18 9:21 ` Alex Riesen
2007-01-18 8:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-18 9:35 ` Alex Riesen
2007-01-18 11:52 ` Josh Boyer
2007-01-18 13:33 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-18 13:46 ` Alex Riesen
2007-01-18 13:40 ` Alex Riesen
2007-01-18 14:10 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-01-18 14:15 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-18 14:41 ` Alex Riesen
2007-01-18 14:49 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-18 14:53 ` Alex Riesen
2007-01-18 15:16 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-18 15:37 ` Alex Riesen
2007-01-18 15:42 ` Josh Boyer
2007-01-18 20:03 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-18 20:12 ` Josh Boyer
2007-01-18 15:26 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2007-01-18 15:52 ` Alex Riesen
2007-01-18 19:29 ` Steven Grimm
2007-01-18 19:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-18 16:09 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-01-19 10:11 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-18 15:42 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-18 16:05 ` Alex Riesen
2007-01-18 16:29 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-01-18 16:51 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-18 17:03 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-01-18 19:30 ` Martin Langhoff
2007-01-18 19:19 ` Martin Langhoff
2007-01-18 12:40 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-01-18 15:10 ` Lukas Sandström
2007-01-18 15:29 ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-01-18 9:57 ` Alexandre Julliard
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